University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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10 :M'hy. then do I want to resign? My conviction is that the head of such a university as this one can do his best work for it within a reasenabty short time. The University every 59 often requires a change in leaders who can apply fresh and sharply objective appraisals, and start anew, free of the associations, friendships, and scars of a common struggle. ttI believe that the history of our University bears me out in showing the renewed Vitality and intensity which came with each of my prndecessors and the new and distinctive contributions they were able to make through the direction they gave the University. nThis is the more understandablc-and this is not a complainthwhen I remind you that the job is an enormously demanding and exhausting one. hFinally. I can only say that, were I not confident ycu could hnd sonwone who could do the job from here On better than I could do it, I would not resign. The University of Chicago means more to me than I am able to express.

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